{"id":10849,"date":"2007-01-22T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T05:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10849"},"modified":"2007-01-22T00:31:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T05:31:04","slug":"sherrybaby-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/22\/sherrybaby-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherrybaby (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sherrybaby_010\"<\/a>Sherry Swanson is a child in a woman\u2019s body. She\u2019s petty, selfish, immature, completely void of anything resembling public etiquette, and is utterly self-deprecating. She\u2019s willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants, hates herself for it, and simply has no idea how to stop. Some viewers will be hard pressed to find some sort of sympathy for this character. She\u2019s unlikable, despicable, and utterly obnoxious at times take for example her competing for her father\u2019s attention with her own daughter. But she\u2019s simply the result of a young girl who hasn\u2019t been in the real world, a young woman who is still a baby that hasn\u2019t received the proper help necessary. If there\u2019s any help for her at all.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also headed down a path of self-destruction and endless pitfalls, thanks to her inability, and lack of knowledge of change. Collyer\u2019s film pulls us into the character of Sherry, with moments of sheer discomfort brought upon Sherry\u2019s insistence on forcing herself back into her child\u2019s happy life. Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s performance is wonderful, diving into this character that has barely anything worth sympathizing with, and completely disappears into this woman who just has no chance of surviving in the real world. As the story unfolds, she falls apart more and more and we watch as she disintegrates the further away her daughter drifts. Collyer\u2019s film is pretty uncomfortable at times, as we watch Sherry rendered irrelevant in her own family, and angered at her daughter\u2019s dismissal of her affection.<\/p>\n

2006 was the year when Maggie Gyllenhaal not only fleshed out her career, but showed she was capable of a variety of roles. \u201cSherrybaby\u201d would be the role of her career yet, a tragic character with the child-like face that has to fight to win her daughter. But the tragedy is not in Sherry\u2019s life, but more of her child Alexis who is confused and torn between the people she loves, and the person she\u2019s told to love. Sherry has no idea of the damage she\u2019s inflicting on the people she loves, including her put upon brother Bobby who is struggling to please his wife and keep his sister together, her sister in law Lynette who rightfully lords her influence over Sherry\u2019s child Alexis, and her parole officer who spells her inevitable re-entry into prison and the system.<\/p>\n

Danny Trejo sports an otherwise good supporting performance as a counselor who gains a relationship with her and keeps her on the straight and narrow, while Collyer explores the deeper meaning behind Sherry\u2019s constant failures in a rather disturbing light. After the second half audiences will be further pressed to sympathize for her, but in the end, she\u2019s still a snake eating her own tail. Maggie Gyllenhaal pulls in possibly the best performance of her career as the multi-dimensional tragicharacter Sherry, a adult who still has growing up to do, if she doesn\u2019t destroy her own life in the process. Collyer\u2019s film is uncomfortable, disturbing, and rather disheartening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sherry Swanson is a child in a woman\u2019s body. She\u2019s petty, selfish, immature, completely void of anything resembling public etiquette, and is utterly self-deprecating. She\u2019s willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants, hates herself for it, and simply has no idea how to stop. Some viewers will be hard pressed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,340,885],"class_list":["post-10849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-family","tag-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}